{"id":8752,"date":"2023-03-22T15:09:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T22:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8752"},"modified":"2023-03-23T11:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:32:56","slug":"racial-justice-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8752","title":{"rendered":"Racial Justice in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent story the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/05\/nyregion\/new-york-crime-stats.html\">reported<\/a> that while homicides fell in New York City last year, major crimes were up by 22% compared to 2021.\u00a0 The increases included burglary up 23%, robbery up 25.8%, grand larceny up 26%, auto theft up 23% (over 23,000 more cars stolen), assault up 14% and rape up 8.4%.\u00a0 The city has been hemorrhaging police officers, with NYPD currently short 1,700, but arrests have increased especially in high crime boroughs.\u00a0 One explanation in the drop of homicides and shootings has been the department&#8217;s emphasis on criminals with guns, with the arrests of 4,627 last year.\u00a0 John Jay Criminologist John Herman told the Times that this drop has not been felt in many of the city&#8217;s minority neighborhoods. \u00a0 But even with targeted policing and more officers, until the state abandons its zero bail law and short sentences for repeat offenders, crime will continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last year the NYPD released a list of the 10 &#8220;worst of the worst.&#8221; The person at the top of the list has 101 career arrests &#8212; 88 since bail reform was enacted &#8212; and 15 convictions, including three felonies and two violent felonies. He has failed to appear in court at least 14 times.\u00a0 Proponents of the sentencing and bail reforms enacted by the Legislature in Albany continue to insist that reducing the consequences for criminals will help to address the disproportionate number of blacks convicted and incarcerated by the systemically racist criminal justice system.\u00a0 They call this racial justice.<\/p>\n<p>If these reforms were actually effective one might expect to see a drop in the arrest rate for black offenders and fewer black victims.\u00a0 There has not been a drop.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s look at homicides from 2017 to 2021.\u00a0 Current data indicate that Blacks make up 23.82% of the people living in NYC.\u00a0 Over that five year period blacks made up over 50% of the homicide victims in 2017. This increased to 73% of the victims by 2021.\u00a0 While police are not always able to locate the murderer, 50% of the murder suspects arrested over the five years were blacks, increasing from 148 in 2017 to 241 in 2021. \u00a0 Somebody needs to explain to the progressives in Albany that more dead black people is not racial justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent story the New York Times reported that while homicides fell in New York City last year, major crimes were up by 22% compared to 2021.\u00a0 The increases included burglary up 23%, robbery up 25.8%, grand larceny up 26%, auto theft up 23% (over 23,000 more cars stolen), assault up 14% and rape up 8.4%.\u00a0 The city has been hemorrhaging police officers, with NYPD currently short 1,700, but arrests have increased especially in high crime boroughs.\u00a0 One explanation in the drop of homicides and shootings has been the department&#8217;s emphasis on criminals with guns, with the arrests of 4,627 last year.\u00a0 John Jay Criminologist John Herman told the Times that this drop has not been felt in many of the city&#8217;s minority neighborhoods. \u00a0 But even with targeted policing and more officers, until the state abandons its zero bail law and short sentences for repeat offenders, crime will continue to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Racial Justice in New York City - Crime &amp; 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